Anyone else obsessed with Mythbusters?

I really and truly hope those two guys are a couple.

I always get the platonic life partner vibe when I'm watching the show.

my heart was beating so hard last night when they burried Jamie alive. i'm soooo claustrophobic

I love the snarky narrator making fun of Adam. I love that the Adam/Jamie relationship grows more and more into a serene and invincible sensei/bumbling student relationship, though I imagine Adam does not. When Adam beat Jamie in the needle in a haystack race I was actually filled with pride for him.

I love the build team. I love that when they were checking whether talking to plants improves them, Kari called them "stupid freshman peas." I love that Scottie (who I have a crush on, I will admit this) has the ability to weld, forge and occaisionally breathe fire (the balloons floating a four year old episode).

Until I discovered Mythbusters I was getting my TV for gigantic nerds fix from Good Eats on the food network. Nothing blows up on good eats, there are no hot tattooed fire breathing welder girls on Good Eats. Mythbusters is to Good Eats what Crack is to Fruitopia.

here's a stoney video of him http://www.fecalface.com/johntrippe/urich.html

Snopes is a she? Well, I'll be.

Snopes is a he. His myth-fighting partner Barbara is a she.

http://i24.tinypic.com/2410688.jpg

Some days I wake up and wonder, "Is today going to be the day that the Kari sex video leaks to the internet?" And even if it's not that day, the thought makes me smirk a little bit. Because you all know that's going to happen, right?

she's married, jaxon's wife knows her, you bastard

my jaymc moment

oh thanks a lot, now i'll definitely be late to work and surly in the morning. :(

boo hoo hoo join the club

LOL STANM

have they ran out of myths yet?

funny you should ask. They have, in fact.

they just make shit up now,right?

actually, I think they have moved on to religious tenets.

http://www.tvsquad.com/media/2006/05/mythbuster-kari.jpg

insert pun here involving the word "busty"

she's not married, jaxon knew her before wifey, i had pizza next to her after an art show and had no idea she was on a TV show.

^^^pizza with her^^^

(and about 8 other people including her boyfriend).

http://i24.tinypic.com/2410688.jpg

this is what i always think of when i watch this show!

http://saturn5.com/darwin/beef/images/kari/06-kari_byron_shark_bikini_radio_belly.jpg

actually she got married last year, my bad.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ykhSLNlx3n0

and of course, probably the most endearing:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RHcDP_Yew-g&feature=related

Its funny everyone talks about their platonic coupley relationship because in actuality, the Mythbusters guys dislike each other immensely off the show. Seriously, I read an interview with them where they admitted they really don't get on terribly well and just tolerate each other for the show's dynamic.

Dude yeah Adam's giggly extrovert manic dudeical geek and Jamie's this dude who seems to really dig solving puzzles but keeping to himself. Plus he's clearly a total bear.

That lolwalrus is cracking me the fuck up.

http://www.popularmechanics.com/technology/upgrade/4243994.html?page=1

http://icanhascheezburger.files.wordpress.com/2008/01/funny-pictures-mythbuster-cat.jpg

man i wish i could get paid to write my middlebrow rants in popmech

Mythbusters would be more watchable in a half-hour format.

http://www.tvsquad.com/media/2006/05/mythbuster-kari.jpg

oh man...

that isn't from maxim.com !?!?!

fhm

http://content.ytmnd.com/content/1/5/1/151f6a56e2129d354c29837d32b9c8d9.jpg

feh

shades of tubgirl

Boy, if that's as profound as the guy gets my impression of Mythbusters as science and "engineering" for people who got C's in science and work at Radio Shack is OTM.

I'd be embarrassed to come up with these:

But there are times when innovation produces aggravation, and when that happens, technology can flat out drive us nuts.

Times, eh?

Computer operating systems loaded with stuff I don't want and will never use.

Naw, surely he shits us!

Why not start with a computer loaded with basic stuff that works 100 percent of the time?

Oooooh, first time I've read that. Today.

I'm embarrassed for you anyway.

It is kind of annoying though the way he throws in the phrase "feature bloat" and then says, "Why not start with a computer loaded with basic stuff that works 100 percent of the time?" Well, because of feature bloat. There's a reason why it happens, has to do with the business of selling operating systems instead of hardware, look it up. Or just think about it for a second.

He's otm about Ubuntu, though, I love it and it has not failed me yet.

OMG so not work safe:

http://img229.imageshack.us/img229/8714/6911wtf1pl1.jpg

uh... busted?

come on, that doesn't even look like him

I would be so sad if that was how my genitals looked.

i used to like the show until:
1.they ran out of good ideas.
2.i realized they are annoying, esp. Adam, who is too nerdy-obsessive to handle, and tends to laugh hystericly , and for no reason,at anything that goes wrong or right on the experiments.

I know, can you imagine how terrible he'd be on cocaine?

it's a nightmare to imagine it

isn't he already?

luv em, but they can be annoying and it's annoying when they screw one up. like, they had a candle in front of a big woofer and said it's true, the sound blew out the candle! no way. big woofers move air. the air blew out the candle.

The vodka one was silly, esp. the bit where they tested to see if it helped poison oak.

he wouldnt do drugs - it's illegal.
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as annoying as adam is, i have no time at all for the intrepid team of mr. wizard nerdling lackeys

andrew, you realize sound is just travelling fluctuations in fluid pressure, right?

so yeah, the sound blew out the candle.

and of course they play pretty loose with the definition of myth.

no one could jump a car real far off of a dirt ramp! what a myth!

hahahaha OTM

Would be better as a half-hour show, with just the walrus, Kari and the non-Asian nerdling lackey

ha! damn you, elmo! xp

http://www.hyd365.com/video/ykhSLNlx3n0/Kari-Byron-Butt-Scan

I have a crush of shame on Adam. It is truly (apart from the others) my one downfall.

Can you solve a myth?

On the Discovery Channel channels in Europe, this is part of the text of the advertisement for the show:
"Meet Adam and Jamie. They're on a mission to solve urban myths."

???

http://www.google.com/search?client=safari&rls=en&q=urban+myth&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8

I know what they are and I know what the show does, but they don't and you can't "solve a myth"

with some engineering know-how and a bushy moustache you can solve anything

Mythbusters banned from discussing RFID by Visa, MasterCard, AMEX, etc...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hq7kBhts9a8

A bit of a twist!

https://twitter.com/MythBusters/status/502637806905090048

Budget, decision by those three, something else?

Feels logical that they would end up doing something else since their segments always were kinda separate from the Jamie/Adam bits, but they could have left ages ago. Why now?

I can't recall offhand any segment where they ever interacted personally with Adam and Jamie. Their segments really were like a show within a show.

You're right, but why is that? Strictly a production decision, or something else?

Weird. I was watching this with the fam a couple nights ago and it struck me that it was about time these people (any of the cast, not Kari, Grant, and Tory specifically) would go off and do other things with their careers.

Adam really looks like he's on the verge of tears there.

I know Adam does side project stuff as he goes and Jamie's still got his core business.

I can't recall offhand any segment where they ever interacted personally with Adam and Jamie. Their segments really were like a show within a show.

This happened more often earlier on but as it got more established, it went from there -- the M7 mentioned in the link is the separate studio space from M5 that was eventually set up when the show got more popular.

this is still on TV huh

where are they now?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PJoMzhStPNk#t=172

Next season's the last. Good interviews:

http://www.ew.com/article/2015/10/21/mythbusters-ending-interview

The format change of last season, moving to just Adam and Walrus, was much more watchable than previous seasons IMO.

I felt exactly the opposite. I knew the show was doomed once they fired the build team.

Grant Imahara has suddenly passed on due to a brain aneurysm.

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/grant-imahara-dead-mythbusters-host-was-49-1303101

😢

Very sad. I don't usually get too worked up when celebrities pass, but I used to watch this every night with my kids for a year or so. Grant seemed like such a sweet guy.

Pretty much every comment I've seen from people who knew or worked with him echoes that. A damn shame.

Awful, he always seemed like the most genuinely excited member of the Mythbusters B-team.

Great thread here:

Grant Imahara was a great man. He was a steadfast pillar of every community he was a part of. He was a caring, inspiring, massive heart who brought out the best in everyone.

— Erika Ishii (@erikaishii) July 14, 2020

Totally missed this news from last August. Jessi Combs, who was Kari's replacement on the show for a while, died in an accident.

https://www.thewrap.com/jessi-combs-mythbusters-and-overhaulin-host-dies-at-36-attempting-to-break-her-own-speed-record/